Internationalisation at Home

Tilburg University, University of Antwerp & Free University Amsterdam

This project, which involved the international offices of three universities, aimed at investigating how internationalisation activities can be more inclusive towards different social groups in higher education.

Mobile Welfare. European welfare systems in times of mobility

Netherlands Interdisciplinary Demographic Institute, the Hague

The Mobile Welfare project aims to understand the role of welfare systems in destination and origin countries for migration patterns within and towards Europe. The project addresses three research questions: How and to what extent do welfare systems affect mobility patterns in Europe? To what extent and how do perceptions of access to welfare arrangements in origin and destination countries shape migration decisions? What role does transferability of welfare accounts play in mobility across Europe?

Toward a European Society: Single Market, Binational Marriages, and Social Group Formation in Europe (EUMARR)

Netherlands Interdisciplinary Demographic Institute, the Hague

The project, involving researchers from Belgium, the Netherlands, Spain and Switzerland, examines trends since 1980 in the proportions of binational marriages between citizens of European Union countries. It pays special attention to the nationalities of those entering these marriages. The goal of the demographic analysis is to assess to what extent the European single market has contributed to an increase in binational marriages. In addition, it attempts to determine to what extent changes in the proportion of binational marriages and the distribution of these marriages by nationality are driven by market processes (e.g. greater intra-European migration) and by social and cultural processes (e.g. affinity between citizens of specific nationalities). In addition, the project will examine to what extent being part of a binational marriage is associated with different orientations to European integration, a lowered sense of membership in the national community of origin, a stronger sense of belonging to Europe, and different lifestyles and worldviews.

The influence of European student mobility on European identity and subsequent migration aspirations

Centre for Migration and Intercultural Studies, University of Antwerp

This international research project was funded by an individual PhD-grant of the Research Foundation - Flanders (Aspirant FWO) and aimed to develop an empirically based theoretical model on International Student Mobility within the European context. The project was conducted in Austria, Belgium, Italy, Norway, Poland and the United Kingdom.

Imagining Europe from the Outside

Centre for Migration and Intercultural Studies, University of Antwerp

The EUMAGINE project aims to study how Europe is perceived from outside the EU, and how these perceptions affect migration aspirations and decisions. The project focuses on how people’s perceptions on democracy and human rights – in relation to their regions and countries of origin as well as places abroad – affect their perceptions on and attitudes to migration. We are also interested in investigating how perceptions on human rights and democracy interact with other determinants of migration aspirations, to what extent migration is perceived as a valuable life project, and how potential migrants compare Europe to other migration destinations. EUMAGINE studies migration-related perceptions among people aged 18-39 in four countries of origin and transit: Morocco, Senegal, Turkey and Ukraine.